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Patented July 11, 1893.

J. J. OHAVASSE. POWER FILLING MACHINE.

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J; J. 0HAVASSE.- POWER FILLING MACHINE.

No. 501,055. Patented July 11,1893.-

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES JOHNSON OI-IAVASSE, OF TORONTO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO GEORGE BENGOUGH AND ARTHUR JAMES PHILLIPS, OF SAME PLACE.

POWER FILLING-MACHINE.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,055, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed June 25, 1892. Serial No. 437,929. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES JOHNSON CHA- VASSE, manufacturer, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Power Filling-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to design'a machine by which internally stoppered bottles may be filled with siru p and aerated water and then stopper-ed rapidly and without the danger usuallyincident to filling bottles with aerated water by hand and it consists essentially of providing a machine with standards secured on the main horizontal driving gear wheel upon which standards are supportedthe valve box from-which the sirup and aerated water are supplied, and further in providing a socket which has a passage way through it and is connected by a pipe to the passage way leading from the valve box, the said socket having a bell-shaped mouth into which the mouth of the bottle is inserted, the base of the bottle being designed to be placed on asaucer supported on the end of a lever,

which is pivoted on the standard and controls the supply valve, the said lever being connected at its inner end to a rod, which end is held down by a spiral spring so that at its upper end there is a constant pressure on the base of the bottle to hold it in position, which pressure is removed by a'cam operating on the bottom of the rod, so as to raise the rod and thereby enable the bottle to be taken out. All of the valves regulating the supply of the sirup and aerated water also have rods controlled by cams, which act upon the rods at certain intervals so as to admit of the filling of the bottle. Levers pivoted at their inner ends on the revolving arms attached to the upper ends of the standards, are also provided and each of them have attached to their outer ends a rod whereby the stopper may be drawn up into the neck of the bottle by the raising of each of the said levers on apin supporting each lever and each pin being designed to mount a cam on a stationary disk at a certain period ofits revolution so as toraise the lever and pull the stopper up against the neck of the bottle, the whole being otherwise constructed in detail and arranged as hereinafter more. particularly explained.

Figure 1, is a perspective view of my power filling machine. Fig. 2,is a vertical section through a portion of the shaft, the disk, the

driving gear wheel and one of the valve boxes and its pump and passage way. Fig. 3, is a sectional plan through the valve box on the line :ry Fig. 2, and also on line z-z of '6: Fig. 7. Fig. 4', is a sectional elevation on the line ab Fig. 3. Fig. 5, is a sectional elevationon the line e-fFig. 3. Fig. 6, is a sectional elevation on the line ccl Fig.3. Fig. 7, is a diagonal vertical cross section of the valve box through the lines l-2, 23 Fig. 3 looking directly from the front of the valve box. Fig. 8, is a detail of one form of stopper designed to be used with my invention.

In the drawings like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A, is the vertical stationary shaft secured in the top of the pedestal, B.

O, is the main driving gear wheel which is supported on the shoulder, a, at thelower end of the shaft, A.

D, are standards bolted at the bottom to the gear wheel, C, and at the top to the arm, E, which are designed to revolve around the vertical stationary shaft, A.

F, is a valve box which extends through the slot, G, in the standard, D, and is supported and secured on a bracket, H, attached to the inner side of the standard, D.

g, is the main passage way extending through the valve box, F, and through the socket, I.

J, is a lever pivoted on the lugs,j, and extending through a slot, 61, in the standard, D. On the outer end of the lever is secured a circular saucer, K, while the inner end of the lever, J, is pivoted and secured between the lugs, 70, attached to or forming part of they rod, L. Y

M, is a rod connected at, m, to the lever, J, and having a valve, Z, secured at its upper end, which valve when there is no bottle in the machine is caused to rest on its seat above the lower bend of the passage way, 9, by the ,3 tension of the spiral spring, N. a" spring, N, is held between the two collars, n,

The Spiral too it. The collar, 42, is secured to the vertical tral pin,

spindle, O, which is held in the top of the revolving disk, P, secured on the main stationary shaft, A, and extends downwardly into the hole, 0, made in the rod, L. The collar, n, is secured on the upper end of the rod, L, as shown.

Q, is a sirup pump provided with the piston, q, and, q, is the piston rod.

and, g are the top and bottom ends of the piston which is cylindrical in shape. The bottom, 1 is connected by the pipe, 0', to the passage Way, 0", extending into the valve box.

R, is the plate secured on the rod, q, and R, is a spiral spring extending between the plate, R, and piston end, g

S, is a plate secured at its inner side to the standard plate, I), at the top of the slot, G.

s, is a thumb screw designed toadjust the piston rod q, and consequently the piston, q, so as to regulate the amount of sirup pumped at a time and consequently the amount to be put into the bottle.

t, are the branch sirup pipes leading from the main sirup pipe T, into the valve box at, t, where each connects with the passage way, r shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4 and in full lines in Fig. 7. The passage way, a", has situated above it at a little distance from the end of the pipe, 25, in the vertical hole, '1 connected to it, a valve, r which is provided with a spiral spring, 0*, to keep the said valve on its seat (see Fig. 7). Above the valve, 7", and connected to the vertical hole, T is a passage way, r, which is connected to the passage way, r.

7*", is a passage way extending diagonally as in Figs. 3 and 5 from the bottom of the passage way, 4'', to a point beneath the valve, 0".

T is a passage way extending diagonally from where it joins the passage way, 7'", and, 'r, to a point beneath the valve, 7- (see Figs. 3, 4, and 7.) The valve, 0" is held down by a spiral spring, 0 in the vertical hole, a, the spiral spring, r being considerably lighter than the spiral spring, 'r ,in the vertical hole 0', holding down the valve, 4.

It will be noticed on reference to Fig. 7 that the passage way, 4' extends from the vertical hole, 0", from a point above the valve, 0*, to the outside of the valve box where it connectswith the sirup pipe, t. It will also be noticed that the vertical hole, 0, is connected at a point above the valve 1" by the passage way, 4', to themain passage way, g, Figs. 3 and 4.

u, is the sniff valve provided with a conu', which extends upwardly through a vertical hole, a and through a cap, ur, screwed in the top of the valve box.

u, is a passage way leading through the hole, M, from a point above the top of the valve, u, to the outer air.

a is a spiral spring placed in the lower portion of the hole, a and supporting the valve on its seat.

g, is a passage way-extending from a point beneath the valve, u, when in its normal position, to the central passage way, 9.

v, are pipes leading from the main pipe, V, which extends through the pedestal and up through the center of the stationary shaft,A, to the point where the pipe, 1), is connected to it, (see Figs. 1 and 2.) The pipe, 4), enters into the box, F, at o, where it is connected by the passage way, 0 to the vertical hole, '0 at a point below the valve, 0 The valve, 11 is supported in its seat by the spiral spring, 0 and has a central pin, 1;, extending upwardly through the screwed cap, 12 as indicated.

w, is a set-screw extending down into the passage way, g, and designed to regulate the quantity of liquid. which it is desired to have flow through the said passage way.

WV, is a disk secured on the stationary shaft, A, above the revolving disk, P, and, w, is a cam formed underneath the said disk near the periphery of the same as indicated. The cam, w, is in the path of the piston rods, q of the piston, q, of the sirup pump, Q.

y, y, are cams also secured beneath the disk, W, and are concentric with the center of the said disk. The cams, y, 1 are in the path of the spindles, u, and, '0, of the suit? valve and aerated water valve respectively.

X, are levers pivoted at their inner ends on the arm, E, and extending outwardly, curved as shown, through the loop, so, formed at the upper end of the spindle, Z, which extends downwardly through the socket, I, as shown. The spindle, Z, has a crooked end, 2', so as to catch loop at the top of the stopper of the bottle.

2', is a spiral spring located between the top of the curved end of the lever, X, and the internally threaded thumb screw, .2 The spring, 2'', is designed to relieve the strain on the neck of the bottle caused by the upward pulling of the rod, 2, when the neck of the bottle is longer than ordinary and the stopper is being pulled up into position to close the mouth of the bottle.

Beneath the inner end of each lever, Z, and supporting the same near the standard, D, is a pin,a:', which extends through the revoluble arm, E, and during the revolution of the said arm upon the plate, W, except when the pin is passing over the cam, 00 During the period the pin, 00, is passing over the cam, the pin raises the outer end of the lever and consequently lifts the spindle, Z, upwardly so as to pull the stopper up and close the mouth of the bottle. In lifting up the spindle, Z the lever, X, would naturally push the upper end of the spindle, Z, outwardly and consequently the crooked end, 2, inwardly, so as to catch the wire of the stopper. 1 of course leave the hole in the socket, I, through which the spindle extends a little easy, so as to permit of the inward movement of the crooked end, 2.

2, is a cam secured on the top of the pedestal and designed to raise the rod, L, so as to IIO horizontal and directly below the.socket,-I.

The bottle may now readily be placed in position and as the rod,-L, is caused to descend the cam, 2, by the action of the spiral spring,

N, causes an upward pressure on the saucer,

K, and thereby securely holds the bottle be tween the saucer, K, and socket, I. Immediately upon the bottle being inserted in position it passes on in its revolution and the rod, q, of the piston, q,.of the sirup pump, Q, connecting with the valve box onrthe standard in which this particular bottle is supported as hereinbefore described is forced down by the cam, y, to the lower portion of the pump, Q. Immediately upon itszpassing the cam, w, the spring, q, forces the said rod upwardly against the bottom of the stationary disk, W, as indicated in Fig.v 2 therebyproducing a suction through the pipe, 1", and passage way, 0, r T and outer end of the passage way, 0*, which suction raises thevalve, r above the passage .way, 1', extendingbee tween the vertical hole, 71 and the bottom of the passage way, 1", thereby permitting the sirup to be drawn up into the sirup pump, Q.-v

. On first starting themachine of course, each sirup pump would have to turn a full revolution before being ready to force-the sirup- When the machine has made into the bottle. a complete revolution the pump of course being full, will, .when forced downwardly, propel the sirup through the pipe, r,-- passage, Way, r, diagonal passage way, r Figs. 3, 4,

and 7, to a point below ,the valve, 1" which the propulsion of the sirup forces upwardly above the endof the passage way, 4*. This is due to the fact that the spring of the valve 7' is weaker than that of the valve r as before stated. Otherwise the valve r would be raised also as it is also subjected tothep'ressure from the liquid coming; through the passage r, r by means of thepassageod. The sirup will consequently flow through the passage way, r into. the main. passage. way, g, then up through thesocket, I, down into the bottle. Of course the valve, Z, is, during this period, held down so. as to, allowof a clear passage way for the sirup by the bottleresting on thesaucer, K, at the outer end of the lever, J. Should howevernQ bottle be in the machine andthe siruppump'act asbefore described, theliquid from the pipe 7', andpassage 0" would be forced along thepassage. way, r but as it could not pass the valve,- r

on account of the sirup fi-llingu-p the vertical.

which is situated in the jpath of tlie pin, which is. locatedat a point in the ,path just hole, r passage way, 1, and main passage way, g, to the valve, Z, which .is now closed, by the action of the spring N as in Fig. 2 it would necessarily flow along the diagonal .passage way, rQFigs. 3, 4 and'7 to a point beneath the valve, 4", and throw the valve upwardly above the end of .the passage way, 7*, through which the liquid would now flow back .into the sirup pipe, 25, (see Figs. 3, 4, and7.) There will consequently be no dan-, ger of any sirup being wasted when there is no bottle in the machine. After having put the sirup into the bottle it is necessary that some of the atmospheric air should be removed. For this purpose I provide a sniff valve, to, with a rod, u, as hereinbefore described. The top of the rod, u, as the machine revolves is broughtunder the cam, g, which forces the valve, tt, downwardly be. neath the passage way, g, so that the extra pressure of air in the bottle will escape through f the passage way, g, and branch passageway,

Immediately upon the pin, a,

stationary disk, IV, the pin, v, is thrown downwardly by the cam, y, so as to throw its valve, 21 below the passage way, '0 connecting with the pipe, '0, so that the aerated water in the pipe, 2;, will ascend through the sage way, 9 and main passage way, 9, through the socket, I, in to the bottle and will partially fill the same. When the valve, '0 is thrown assa e wa 0 vertical hole, v branch as- .P s

back on its seat so as to retard the flow of the v aerated water the rod of thesniffvalve is brought beneath the cam,y', and thereby. relieves the bottle of the remaining portion of the atmospheric air in the manner her'einbefore described. Upon the rod, u, hav: ing passed over the cam, y, the rod, o of the. valve, 11 is again thrown downwardly so as to allow sufficientaerated water to flow through the passage way, 0 vertical hole, 0. branch passage way, 9 and main passage way, g',.tofl fill thelbottle.

The arrangement of the passages for the escape of air and the inlet of the aeratedwater with relation to the main passage 1, is, clearly indicated in Figs. 3 and 6. r

It will be noticed that ifthere is no bottle it the machine as the sirup fills up the passageway, g, and the valve, Z, is held on its-seat, it

will also be impossible for any aerated water to escape throughthe passage way, 9.

In order that the bottlemay be securely .stoppered before it leaves the machineIpro vide-as before described a rod,-Z, with a,

crookedend, z, bywhich the stopper maybe by the lever, X, and pin, on, and the cam, 50

before where the rod, L, is raised on the cam,

lifted up into the position in. theneck of the bottle. ,-The rod, Z, isarrangedjto beraised removed and another bottle placed in position in its stead.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination, the revolving frame, the holders for the bottles comprising a movable saucer K and a socket I, the valve box, the conduit leading therefrom to the socket, the sirup pipe connected to the valve box, the valve in the valve box controlling the passage of the liquid to the socket I, the lever for operating the movable saucer, the means for operating the said lever and the connection between the lever and the valve, the said saucer being carried and supported directly by the operating lever substantially as described.

2. In combination, the stationary post, the

revolving frame movable about the said post i and comprising a lower gear Wheel, the laterally extending support E, at the upper end, the vertical standards D, extending between the gear wheel and said support, the valve boxes secured to the standards, the sockets I, for the upper ends of the bottles carried by the said frame, the movable saucers K, for the lower end of the bottles, the levers pivotally connected with the standards and the means for operating the inner ends of the said levers, substantially as described.

3. In combination, the stationary post, the revolving frame comprising the lower gear wheel about the post and the upper supports E, the standards D, extending between the gear wheel and upper supports, the valve boxes and sockets I, carried by the standards, the conduits leading to the valve boxes, the movable saucers, the levers carrying the same pivoted to the standards, the vertical spring rods at the inner ends of the lovers and the cam supported on a stationary part and arranged in the path of the said spring rods, substantially as described.

4. In combination, the revolving frame carrying valve boxes sockets I, and movable saucers K, for holding the bottle, the sirup pipe connecting with the valve box, the said valve box having a valved passage g, leading to the socket I, the aerated water pipe leading to the valve box, the passage 9 connecting the same with the inner passage 9, the valve in the said passage and the means for operating the said valve as the revolving frame moves, substantially as described.

5. In combination, the pedestal the post thereon, the revolving frame comprising the gear wheel the upper support E, and the standards D, between the same, the valve boxes and sockets carried by the standards, the movable saucers, the pivoted levers therefor, the vertical rods L, under spring tension connected with the inner ends of the said levers and passing through the gear wheel and the cam on the pedestal for operating the rod vertically, substantially as described.

6. In combination,the revolving frame the valve box and socket I, carried thereby, the movable saucer, the lever pivoted to the frame and carrying the same, the hollow rod L, at the inner end of the lever, the stationary cam for operating said rod, the guide rod 0, engaging the hollow rod and the spring about the rod, 0, bearing on the hollow rod, substantially as described.

7. In combination, the revolving frame, the supporting means for the bottles comprising the sockets I, with the lower bearings as K, the conduits leading to the sockets I, the hooked rods Z, extending through the sockets, and having their hooked ends located between the bearings of the sockets and the lower bearings the levers carryingthe said rods and pivoted to the revolving frame and the means for automatically operating the lovers as the frame moves, substantially as described.

8. In combination, the revolving frame the sockets I, for the bottles, the hooked rods passing through the said sockets, with their hooked ends arranged to project into the bottle the lovers X with means for operating them automatically as the frame revolves and the yielding connection between the levers and the hooked rods, substantially as described.

9. In combination, the revolving frame the valve boxes, pumps and sockets carried thereby, the hooked rods Z, passing through the sockets, with their hooked ends projecting from the bearing seat thereof to extend into the bottle the levers X, carrying the said rods and the stationary disk W, having cams for operating the pump pistons and the lovers X, substantially as described.

10. In combination, the holder for the bottle, the valve box having a conduit g, leading to the bottle holder, the suction and force pump, the sirup supply pipe, the said valve box having an inlet conduit leading through it from the supply pipe to the pump with a check valve in said conduit and having also a second conduit r" leading from the pump to the conduit C, around the check valve, substantially as described.

11. In combination, the holder for the bottle, the valve box, and pump, the supply pipe, the said valve box having the conduit leading from the supply pipe through it to the pump whereby the liquid is drawn into the pump by the suction thereof, the check valve in the said conduit, the said valve box also having a passage 1"", leading from the pump on the rear of the check valve to communi cate with the bottle holder, and second passage W, with a check valve therein leading from the pump to connect with the supply pipe, substantially as described.

12. In combination, the holder for the bottle comprising the socket I, and the movable saucer, the valve box, the pump and the supply pipe, said valve box having the passage g, leading to the socket, the valved passage leading from the supply pipe to the pump, the passage 0", having a valve 0" and leading from the pump to the passage 9, the passage 4, having a valve r under greater tension than the valve r and connecting with the supply pipe, the valve Z, in, the passage g, and the connection therefrom to the movable sau cer, substantially as described.

'13. In combination, the revolving frame, the bottle holder, the valve box and the pump carried thereby, the supply pipe for the siru p, the said valve box having the main passage g, leading to the bottle holder, the valved inlet passage leading from the supply pipe to the pump, the passage leading from the pump to the passage g, the means for operating the pump, the supply pipe 1;, leading to the valve box and connecting with the main passage 9, the valve 124, and the means for operating the said valve, substantially asdescribed.

7 JAMES JOHNSON OHAVASSE.

Witnesses LEWIS P. ABELL,. BLANGHE BOYD. 

